The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned the US Federal Reserve on Thursday against lowering interest rates too early. “The policy rate should be lowered only after there is a clear evidence that inflation is sustainably returning to the 2% target,” IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said in Washington. The IMF asserted that the central bank of the world’s largest economy should keep the key interest rate at its current level at least until the end of 2024. The IMF agreed with the Fed that the central bank needed to be “cautious.” It further predicted that the inflation rate will drop to the 2…